Projects and Installations > Lost on the Search for Identity

Bodie, California, recycled pallet art, barbed wire
Burned image on recycled pallet, barbed wire
40" x 48"
2015
burned desert stake
Burned wood
4" x 48"
2015
cenotaph, recycled pallet art, dry brush, drought, work
Recycled pallets, canvas, dry brush
46" x 56" x 48"
2015
cenotaph, recycled pallet art, dry brush, drought, work
Recycled pallets, canvas, dry brush
46" x 56" x 48"
2015
cenotaph, recycled pallet art, dry brush, drought, work
Recycled pallets, canvas, dry brush
46" x 56" x 48"
2015
cenotaph, recycled pallet art, dyed red shirts
Recycled pallets, dyed shirts
40" x 48" x 48"
2015
cenotaph, recycled pallet art, dyed red shirts
Recycled pallets, dyed shirts
40" x 48" x 48"
2015
recycled pallets, confederate flag, channels, drought, southeast, wood
Recycled pallets
64" x 96" x 5"
2015
broom on a pallet that holds up a drawing of a generic mountain landscape, romanticism, individualism
Pallet, broom, charcoal and beach coal on tar paper
36" x 24" x 48"
2015
broom on a pallet that holds up a drawing of a generic mountain landscape, romanticism, individualism
Pallet, broom, charcoal and beach coal on tar paper
36" x 24" x 48"
2015
broom on a pallet that holds up a drawing of a generic mountain landscape, romanticism, individualism
Pallet, broom, charcoal and beach coal on tar paper
36" x 24" x 48"
2015
installation about nostalgia, red symbolizing communism but also referencing David Lynch with the red drapes, a domestic space occupied by a objects of a failed revolution
Installation, chair, curtains, wood, dyed canvas, projection
Variable
2015
double identity of a southeastern and eastern european person, hat represents both
Painted carpet, dyed canvas, hammer and sickle, hat, pallets
Variable
2015
a memorial showing the two places of pilgrimage, one of Martin Luther King Jr. assasination place the Lorraine Motel, the other of Timothy McVeigh's room at a motel in Kingman, Arizona
Pallet, broom, cardboard, printed images on paper and mylar, marker
Variable
2015
a memorial showing the two places of pilgrimage, one of Martin Luther King Jr. assasination place the Lorraine Motel, the other of Timothy McVeigh's room at a motel in Kingman, Arizona
Pallet, broom, cardboard, printed images on paper and mylar, marker
Variable
2015
a memorial showing the two places of pilgrimage, one of Martin Luther King Jr. assasination place the Lorraine Motel, the other of Timothy McVeigh's room at a motel in Kingman, Arizona
Pallet, broom, cardboard, printed images on paper and mylar, marker
Variable
2015
a memorial showing the two places of pilgrimage, one of Martin Luther King Jr. assasination place the Lorraine Motel, the other of Timothy McVeigh's room at a motel in Kingman, Arizona
Pallet, broom, cardboard, printed images on paper and mylar, marker
Variable
2015
outpost, landscape, woodcut and burned wood
Burned image and woodcut on recycled pallets
72" x 72"
2016

Lost on the Search for Identity is a loose series of works that emphasizes the tenuous relationship between belonging and exclusion, questioning the notion that one belongs anywhere at all, even based on nationality, race or place of birth. The work plays with the idea of nostalgia for a lost home and what this home represents. Why are we nostalgic for a place we once wanted to leave in the first place? The cenotaph, the empty grave, is a symbolic marker of a place or event, sometimes used for nationalistic purposes, at others to serve as a reminder to future generations, but because it is empty the meaning inherent in the cenotaph is derived only from the ritualistic nature of its use.